# Senior Backend Engineer (all genders)

About Babbel Labs Babbel Labs is building the future of language learning. We are an AI-first, independent company within the Babbel group, based in Berlin. Our teams bring AI, research and product together to ship experiences that set a new standard for how people learn. The role Babbel Labs is rebuilding how learning content is created, stored and served, and how we decide what a learner sees next. The architecture for that is being set now, by a small number of engineers, and this role is one of them. You will build and run the services behind it, in a serverless-first TypeScript and Node stack on AWS, owning them from the contract at their edge to their behaviour under load. This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will design, build, ship and operate, and the seniority shows in the decisions you own rather than in a team reporting to you. How you'll make an impact Build and evolve services across our learning platform, owning each one from its API contract through to what runs in production. Take on services you did not write, alongside the people who did. Design API and data contracts that hold up over time, with type-safe transforms between the API, the domain and

- **Id**: 3522716
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/babbel-senior-backend-engineer-all-genders>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T08:28:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:58:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4168
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Language Learning, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 51935
- **Name**: Babbel
- **Domain**: babbel.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/babbel>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 67000
- **Max usd**: 118000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 62

## Technologies

- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T12:51:02Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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